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Address by President Nelson Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Bloemfontein 16 May 1997
… and clashed. Contacts and conflicts between Mosotho;Griqua;British settler, Tswana, Afrikaner and Xhosa set the …
The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
… Smith's consent, Varden sent an army of British troops, Griqua, Kora, Rolong and a small number of Boers to attack …
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… in the Cape Colony . He argued that slave raiding by Griqua , Kora , and other groups armed with European weapons … defended his people against attacks from…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
Mission Stations - A-F
… of the Khoikhoi population of Campbell: "They now live at Griqua Town and Campbell's Dorp. They have given up their … and mat huts. This place was purchased…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… and in January 1837, with the help of a small force of Griqua, Kora, Rolong and Tlokwa, they captured Mzilikazi 's …
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
The Ghwarrie Poort is located on the tarred N9 between the Karoo towns of Uniondale in the south and Willowmore in the north. The Poort is 14 kms long and…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
… been sent to establish control over the too independent Griqua on the Orange River, failed to procure a quota of men …
EventChief Mqikela dies
The Paramount Chief Mqikela, eldest son of Chief Faku and first chief of East Pondoland, died in Qawukeni, near Palmerton, Pondoland. Chief Mqikela took over…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… claimed by the Cape Colony, the Boer territories and the Griqua living there. Waterboer’s feebleness in politics and … a new cosmopolitan and international…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defender of the Hottentots”
… been sent to establish control over the too independent Griqua on the Orange River, failed to procure a quota of men …
EventThe Blue Bulls rugby team wins the South African Currie Cup at Loftus
On 31 October 1998 the Blue Bulls of Pretoria beat Western Province 24-20 at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria, to win the Currie Cup. The Absa Currie Cup is the…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the nineteenth century, Kausobson Kausob, was killed in…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… the Basotho. King Moshoeshoe Image source Secondly the Griqua, who lived further west of the Basotho kingdom, wanted …
PlaceAliwal South, Alternative Name for Mossel Bay
The alternative name in 1850, for Mossel Bay. It was the first place that Europeans landed, that was Bartholomew Diaz and his crew, on 3 February 1488. Here…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
Griqualand West was proclaimed as a separate Crown Colony . The discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters,…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… distinctive identity is being woven from the strands of Griqua and Tswana;Khoikhoi and Afrikaner, San and …
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… Premiers and Deputy Ministers,Members of the Royal Griqua House,Religious leaders,All our special guests …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - The linguistic classification of Kora
… the Grigriqua (perhaps Garigurikua or Gurigurikua, later Griqua or Griekwa), and the Amaqua (!Amaqua). These dialects … of the Links family interviewed by…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
… the Grigriqua (perhaps Garigurikua or Gurigurikua, later Griqua or Griekwa), and the Amaqua (!Amaqua). These dialects … of the Links family interviewed by…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VII - “The Missionary Charter”
… the Boers were over the Orange River into the land of the Griqua and the baSotho; the story of plunder and fraud …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… the Zulu chief, the maMpondomise, the baThembu, Adam Kok's Griqua, the baRolong and the baTlhaping all taking part. The … recognition of their land seizures…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
Honourable Chairperson; Your Majesties, the Kings of our people and guests from abroad; Amakhosi, Magoshi, Mahosi; Honourable Ministers; Honourable…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
This article was written by Alexandra Larkin and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract This essay sheds…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… Any one who looks too much like a Hottentot, Bushman, Griqua or Koranna will be regarded as a Coloured person, …
Mission Stations - I-L
Mission Stations - I IBISI, Natal: FMA; WMMS ICQUIBIGHA, Cape: see IGQIBIGHA, Middledrift, Cape IDUTYWA, also known as IDUTYWA RESERVE, Cape: UFS 1880;…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
… seems to have been a particular characteristic of the Griqua variety. ↵ [21] Mhf, 78–119. ↵ [22] As noted earlier, … a Giri influence: Ouma Jacoba told us…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… Afrikaners would brook no opposition. As Retief warned the Griqua chiefs, 'no nation or tribe, of whatever class or … degenerate and lower type of species is…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… tribal territory, but has for 115 years been an area of Griqua, coloured and white settlement. The area is …